Tom Holland

And you would think this might be a disaster for the Spanish since they're outnumbered.

But overnight, the Spanish tricked the Khitans.

They left their campfires burning, but they slipped away in the darkness.

And Ruminyawa's men didn't realize until it was too late.

Did they just leave their porters behind?

I think they must have left some of them, I guess.

But what this means is that basically they were able to get into Quito.

So Ben Alcázar and his men were able to basically skirt Ruminyawa's army and get into Quito.

But when they get there, they're gutted to find that Rumiñahui has already taken sort of Russia 1812 style action.

Rumiñahui has gutted Quito.

He'd taken all the treasure.

He's taken Atahualpa's family.

He's taken 4,000 women.

And he's set fire to the palaces and the storehouses.

And he's withdrawn.

He's basically withdrawn with all them into the forests.

Some poor behavior by Rumunyawi.

Rumunyawi and his men said to the virgins of the Sun Temple, there were 300 of them, you should leave with us because the Spanish will arrive and they will rape you if you don't.

And the virgins said, no, we don't want to.

So Rumunyawi's men killed them all.